Andover Author - Paul Monette

Paul Monette's Becoming a Man; Half a Life Story won the National Book Award for biography. This Phillips Academy graduate lived in Andover, Lawrence, and California.

Monette's poetry, fiction, and autobiographic works tell his struggle for identity as a gay man in the 1950's and 1960's.

Poetry

• Carpenter and the Asylum Poems (1975)
• Love Alone: 18 Elegies for Rog (1988)
• West of Yesterday, East of Summer: New Selected Poems, 1973 - 1993 (1994)

Autobiographies

• Borrowed Time: An AIDS Memoir (1988)
• Becoming a Man: Half a Life Story(1992)

Novels

• Afterlife (1990)
• Halfway Home (1991)
• Sanctuary: A Tale of Life in the Woods (1997)

Essays

• Last Watch of the Night: Essays Too Personal and Otherwise (1994)

See

• "Paul Monette: Writer on Gay Issues" Andover Townsman, February 16, 1995.

--Eleanor 16:13, November 15, 2011 (EST) back to Main Page